Archive for the ‘Pain / Anesthetics’ Category
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
What's the biggest pain in your life? Credit card debt? High gas prices? While these problems are extremely bothersome, a new survey from the makers of DR. SCHOLL'S® reveals that the physical pain suffered by people with knee and lower back pain is also at the top of the list. ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
A unique condom packet. A fashionable wrist splint. Clothing with innovative fasteners. These are just a few examples of design concepts unveiled today as part of the 'B Me' initiative, on display at the annual European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) congress in Paris. 'B Me' is an international awareness ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
New research out of the University of Delaware (UD) indicates that patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty (TKA) need to relearn the proper techniques of moving from a sitting to standing position. The study was originally published in Physical Therapy (May 1, 2008), the scientific journal of the American ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Results from the NIH Randomized Multicenter Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial. Dr. Nickel presented the use of alfuzosin in the treatment of chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). CP is extremely prevalent with 6-9% of men suffering from this. Treatment of CP is more costly ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Think anesthesiologists only keep patients "asleep" during surgical procedures? An "awake craniotomy" performed on Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy on June 2, 2008 should challenge that notion.In awake craniotomy and similar procedures, patients are anesthetized but are not always under general anesthesia, making them active participants in their own operations and ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKRX) announced the receipt of an FDA approvable letter for Akten® Ophthalmic Gel 3.5%, an ocular topical anesthetic drug product. Our approvable letter identified several minor CMC deficiencies that must be addressed and rectified before final approval is granted. The majority of these items have been addressed ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Schering-Plough is extremely disappointed with the outcome of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) appeal panel with regards to the Final Guidance (FAD) around infliximab for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS).Schering-Plough believes that the economic modelling supporting the Institute's recommendations was highly unsatisfactory. Indeed, this ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Experts from across Europe are gathering at a scientific symposium held at the fifth European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) congress in Trondheim, Norway, on the 29th May, to discuss the challenges of managing an overlooked and distressing symptom that affects large numbers of patients receiving opioids as part of ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Researchers in Zurich, Switzerland have identified specific targets for the therapy of patients suffering from chronic pain. In experiments using mice, they succeeded in specifically blocking the relay of pain signals from the spinal cord to the brain. As a result, they were able to restore the body's pain filter ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
With no available therapy for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome (FS), pharmaceutical companies have shown great interested in coming up with possible recommendations and therapies for treatment. Central nervous system (CNS) niche disorders have always been a major challenge and FS is no different. Some of the key products in ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A study led by Dr. Ann F. Jacobson, associate professor in Kent State's College of Nursing, unveils the reasons why people may initially choose to postpone but ultimately undergo total knee replacement surgery and emphasizes the need for better patient education before and after the procedure.Patients need more education and ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A dentist's injection typically causes numbness for several hours. This experience could soon be history. Now, Clifford Woolf, professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, and his colleagues have developed a combination of two agents which is able to specifically block pain without producing numbness ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
CRI Worldwide, Inc., a leading provider of clinical research services to the global pharmaceutical and biotech industry, has announced the opening of its Center for the Research of Pain Disorders, based at the company's state-of-the-art clinical research facility at the Kirkbride Center in Philadelphia. The Center for the Research of ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that strikes children between the ages of newborn to 16 years. All children with JRA have joint pain, stiffness, and swelling and some also have fever and skin rashes. JRA can impede growth, damage joints, and lead to disability in adulthood. ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Every day, thousands of doctors around the United States walk a tightrope stretched between their duty to help patients in pain -- and the risk of abetting illegal and life-destroying drug addiction and dependence, and losing their medical license for doing so.They walk this tightrope every time a patient asks ...
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